Tubatulabal

North Americahunter-gatherers
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The homeland of the Uto-Aztecan speaking Tubatulabal is centered on the confluence of the Kern and South Fork Kern rivers, and adjacent Greenhorn Mountains of California. The traditional subsistence economy was based entirely on gathering wild plant foods (especially pine nuts and acorns), fishing, and hunting. Bands, informally led by a headman and a dance manager, were aggregates of small hamlets of two to six households, each living in their own circular, domed, brush- and mud-covered house.

Identifier
Region
  • North America
Subregion
  • Northwest Coast and California
Subsistence Type
  • hunter-gatherers
Samples
Countries
  • United States
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